Blaine County Hunting

Deer checked in Blaine County, year by year

Blaine County ranked 61st among Oklahoma counties in 2025 with 972 deer reported. County rows in the report add up to 124,050 deer, so Blaine County supplied about 0.8% of them. Compared with the 972 deer of 2024, the count rose by 0%.

Gaps in the bars: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table). These exclude the WMA table.

Since 1999 the count has ranged from 632 (2018) up to 1,067 (2009). Mean harvest since 2016 is roughly 770 deer across 10 reported seasons.

350 antlerless deer (36%) were in the 2025 count, and the gun season delivered 719.

How Blaine County deer were taken each year

The Blaine County record from 1999:

• 1999739
• 2000937
• 20011,006
• 2003975
• 2004869
• 2005850
• 2006924
• 2007847
• 2008881
• 20091,067
• 20101,014
• 2011874
• 2012923
• 2013715
• 2014665

Deer from WMAs and lakes in Blaine County

Statewide, Oklahoma hunters checked 133,791 deer in 2025-26, counting WMA and OLAP deer.

County deer by year from the ODWC Big Game Harvest Reports (report index; 2025 2025-26 report, 2024 2024-25 report, 2016-2023 tables such as 2019-20 Table 1, 1999-2011 county PDFs); public-area deer from the 2025-26 public land table; statewide totals from the 2025-26 Big Game Report. OCR years keep only rows whose columns sum to the printed total. Checked November 3, 2026.

Blaine County elk and bear country

Blaine County elk zone

ODWC assigns Blaine County to the Northwest Zone; elk there are a private-land hunt with written landowner permission. ODWC caps the harvest by zone (Northwest Zone 8) and reports each elk within 24 hours through E-Check.

Northwest Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding the Panhandle and Special Northwest zones.

ODWC has drawn no CWD surveillance area in Blaine County. The carcass import rule for deer and elk shot out of state applies everywhere.

Elk zones and quotas from the ODWC elk regulations; bear area from the ODWC bear page; pronghorn from the ODWC antelope page; CWD areas and rules from the ODWC SSA page and ODWC CWD page; harvest figures from the ODWC Big Game Harvest Reports. Checked November 3, 2026.

Blaine County lands where the public may hunt

Our Oklahoma land list has 4 hunting areas reaching into Blaine County; the largest is Canton Wildlife Management Area at 14,877 acres. Mapped public land adds up to roughly 4,461 acres, 0.8% of the county. Starred figures (state parks, military land) sit outside the hunting total: state parks are generally closed and military ground is restricted.

Blaine County areas with the most acres

• Canton WMA shows up on our list as a WMA measured at 14,877 acres that spills into Dewey County. Species on record there: deer, doves, ducks and cranes. The record adds controlled hunts, nonresident check-in, non-ambulatory access. The area page gives (580) 541-5319 for hunting. 1 drawn hunt ran there in 2025.
• Canton Waterfowl Refuge Portion (Waterfowl refuge portion, 700 acres) stretches over the line into Dewey County. Quarry named for it: deer, doves, ducks and cranes. Watch for controlled hunts, nonresident check-in. Phone for hunting questions: (580) 541-5319. Controlled hunts in 2025: 1.
• American Horse Lake (Department Lake) is listed as a department lake of about 405 acres. Watch for nonresident check-in.
• With no acreage on the books, Canton Lake (Corps) is one more choice for Blaine County hunters, and Dewey County share it. No acreage is published for Corps hunting land here; the Tulsa District page could not be read.

Open-on-foot tracts in Blaine County

ODWC leases 2 walk-in tracts in Blaine County through OLAP, totalling roughly 636 acres. The tracts are mostly Deciduous forest and Crop. Foot traffic only, no camping, archery and shotgun only, and a Land Access Permit ($100 resident / $200 nonresident) for most hunters.

• Blaine County H001476 ac
• Blaine County H002160 ac

Blaine County overflow: public ground over the line

• Dewey County WMA212 acres in Dewey County, roughly 34 miles away
• Drummond Flats WMA5,122 acres in Garfield County, roughly 36 miles away
• Sandhills WMA5,212 acres in Woods County, roughly 40 miles away
• Major County WMA210 acres in Major County, roughly 45 miles away

* Listed for reference, outside the hunting total.

Areas from our Oklahoma land list (ODWC where to hunt area pages, the ODWC OLAP rules and OLAP layer, USFS, USFWS, Corps and NPS records); acres by kind from the ODWC Public WMA Boundaries layer, USFS, USFWS, USACE Tulsa District and PAD-US layers (GIS measures, not official acreages, lake surfaces removed). Checked November 3, 2026.

Hunts, banquets and trials in Blaine County

On November 3, 2026 the county showed 2 upcoming listings, covering ODWC controlled hunt and ODWC youth draw. Only drawn permit holders take part in the 2 controlled hunts listed.

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Blaine County closing notes

ODWC can change dates after the regulations print; recheck the season pages before a Blaine County hunt.

Sources: 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing & Hunting Regulations, ODWC hunting, Census and the sources in each section. Checked November 3, 2026.